‘That skinny kid in a wheelchair’: Remembering Stephen Hawking

In the mid 1970s, I grabbed a book of short stories from one of my favourite hard science fiction (SF) authors at the time, the multiple award-winning Larry Niven, from the neighbourhood second-hand bookstore.

I think the anthology was titled A Hole In Space, first published in 1974. It ended with an essay by Niven, in which he described a talk by a British physicist whom he described, if I remember correctly, as “a skinny kid in a wheelchair”.